Dee60: Strange idea. Aso Rock and national Assembly should start first riding on Ogbomosho made cars.

Dee60: Strange idea. Aso Rock and national Assembly should start first riding on Ogbomosho made cars.

IGBO-SON:


^^^And if timed right, what's wrong with a total ban on importation of vehicles?; it's not as if they're about to ban something we can't do without....like oxygen or water for instance!

This will give serious minded automobile manufacturing coys the 'reason' to set up factories in Nigeria to meet demand. More so if constant power supply is guaranteed!

iterator25: I guess that means you know everything that goes down in the manufacturing sector here ..your ignorance is profound.. if I had a 2by2 stick I'd plank you

Rossikk:

You work at GM yet you don't know a car manufacturing plant is a car assembly plant?

Let me educate you on your own plant in Michigan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit/Hamtramck_Assembly

t2luv:

Hamtramck is an Assembly plant. That's all it is. Parts are manufactured at other plants, and then brought to Hamtramck for final assembly make a car.

manny4life:

Abeg no do am o, na for jail be that

manny4life:

Plants owned by GM or other companies?

If Hamtramck is just an assembly point just like Innoson, what stops other local industries in Nigeria to supply parts to Innoson?

t2luv:


Most of the parts that goes into our cars are made at our plants. Some of the exceptions are Headlight, Taillight(Back Light) those are made by Ford plants (Visteron). The Windsheild are from Toyota plant in California.

manny4life:

You keep saying "OUR", I asked you, is it plants owned by GM? Besides, how do you define "most part"? Most parts include the car skeleton, the windshield, the transmission and engines, the seats, and dashboard. If you have all these, 85% of car is done with. So again, what parts does GM produce? The mold of the car, yes, but does GM produce their own engines or transmission? Does GM produce their own wiring/wires abi is it the seats? Like other than the mold, WHAT DOES GM PRODUCE?

t2luv:

The plants are own by GM. The workers in those plants work for GM. GM plants that makes parts are under ACDelco. ACDelco is a GM wholly owned subsidary. There is an ACDelco plant in California that makes the engine for both Toyota Corrolla and Chevy Spectrum. In fact do you know that Toyota Matrix and Pontiac Vibe are the same car. Only thing different are the emblem on the cars

zo3184: This is 419, you want to ban imported cars. but your only assembler is still going to import the car parts.

Rossikk:

''In September 1985 a two-year moratorium on nearly all vehicle imports was imposed.''

Don't you know what a moratorium is?

CFCfan: THE Federal Government has revealed plans to ban importation of vehicles into the country, to encourage local production, even as revival efforts for the nation's moribund assembly plants were yet to be visible.

Besides, the government has stepped up moves to reposition the nation's transportation system, in line with its transformation agenda.

Already, the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has concluded arrangements to kick-off passenger service on the Eastern railway route before the end of December.

President Goodluck Jonathan stated these while declaring open the 2013 yearly national management conference of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) in Uyo, Monday.

The President did not however state the time frame for the vehicle import ban programme.

He stressed that the efforts being made, especially in local vehicle production at Nnewi, Anambra State need to be encouraged.

Recently, the government directed its various organs to purchase vehicles made at the Nnewi plant, a gesture that was lauded by the Nigerian Automotive Manufacturers Association of Nigeria.

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga had earlier hinted of government's plan to create three automobile training centres and clusters at Lagos, Nnewi and Kano.

The training centres, according to Aganga, would be established in partnership with Brazil to train Nigerians in automobile maintenance and spare parts production, while the clusters would host new vehicle assembly plants.

The President said that the reform in the rail, airport and the maritime sectors were aimed at gaining the confidence of investors and to empower Nigerians.

The government's policy of economic inclusion, according to him, was designed to empower the less privileged and the unemployed through opportunities in agriculture and skills acquisitions.

"We can emphatically say that as a result of our economic policy, there have been significant improvement in our economic transformation drive," Jonathan said.
http://odili.net/news/source/2013/sep/17/13.html